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School: Scartaglen (roll number 8184)

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Scartaglin, Co. Kerry
Teachers:
D. Ó Dubháin E. Ó Murchú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0448, Page 120

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    Old Crafts
    Candles
    The way they had for making candles long ago was to kill a cow and with the tallow they used to make candles. They used to render the tallow and put it into a mound and let it set for a couple of hours. When it is set the candles will fall out.
    They had better candles long ago than now.
    Skees
    Michael Rahilly and Michael Dahorty were supposed to be the best, skeemakers. They used to have twigs and bow scasoning for a long while before they used them.
    They used to weave the twigs accross the bow. They were very useful for turf and potatoes.
    Dyeing
    They used to dye clothes with logwood and boil the clothes in it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Marcus Kearney
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Michael Kearney
    Gender
    Male